Antigraft judges complete training

Antigraft judges complete training

JAKARTA: Nine non-career judges for the anticorruption court
completed a 50-day training course on Monday that was jointly
organized by the Partnership for Governance Reform, Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Supreme Court.

Chief Justice Bagir Manan said the anticorruption court would
start hearing cases in December after all the career judges had
finished their training at the end of this month.

As part of their training courses, the judges are also
required to attend religion classes.

Sozabura Kawata, the JICA project adviser, asked the judges to
work hard as rampant corruption had resulted in many Japanese
investors leaving the country. Currently, only some 8,000
Japanese investors are active in the country compared to 30,000
several years ago. -- JP